There is no professor he must agree with. A poker player doesn’t need credentials to impress anyone. If they play well, in the long run, they will win money. But-and this is the key-it does allow for the possibility. In fact, the lifestyle of a poker player makes being a true gentleman difficult. So poker players are less pathetic than them.” “They are all under their wives’ thumbs, work nine to five jobs, have sexless marriages with miserable wives, or their wives already left them. “My friends from home are the most pathetic people that I know,” he wrote to me.
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I asked a friend of mine, who was a professional poker player, how his poker-playing friends compared to people in the general population. Hateful, leveling, anti-male feminism is the antithesis of being a gentleman. In other words, the price of admission to Harvard is to go successfully through this process. This wasn’t even a class at Harvard, it was a class before Harvard, in high school. Either the coercion worked and they truly identify as feminists, or they don’t actually identify as feminists, but they learned to lie and trash their own beliefs to get approval from the system. Then, every single guy raised their hand. Note how the professor used subtle coercion to make the men identify as feminists. Another student said, “Well, if feminism means that, shouldn’t we all be feminists? ” That was when people in the classroom started raising their hands one by one, until every hand was raised. My Theory of Knowledge teacher instructed his students, “If you think you’re a feminist, raise your hand.” … To make sure what I vaguely knew about feminism was correct, I asked, “Isn’t feminism essentially advocating for gender equality?” My teacher smiled and looked at me. Consider this anecdote published in the Harvard Crimson by one of its Associate Editors, Daniel Kim: Not only are schools a waste of time and money, but they are an active assault on men’s integrity. “So ironically, we may be returning to the days when few gentlemen even bothered to attend universities.” “If students (and taxpayers) knew how badly they were being swindled by the academies, even the most prestigious, the entire house of cards would collapse,” Baskerville writes. Yet, as more people are realizing every day, school is a problem. The first step to success inside the system is school. A culture which precludes the possibility of being a gentleman. Society is so corrupt now, so dominated by government, so bent on crushing the independent man, that coming up from inside the system indicates submission to the system’s culture. He will go to school, get good grades, go through Harvard Law, and then go to his corporate job dressed up in a suit.īut the man-in-the-suit is likely not a gentleman. The key is to compare the poker player to the guy who “does everything right,” just as society wants him to do. So how can poker be a home for gentlemen? And the lifestyle of a professional live-game poker player, who practically lives in the casino, could be even worse! He is a college dropout, wakes up past noon, gets on the computer still in pajamas, and stays there until dawn. Consider a typical life for a professional online poker player.
It’s true, poker can be problematic to a healthy and reputable existence. I was a professional gambler for much of my life, played poker at the highest (and lowest) stakes, wrote a book on it, and have been involved with the subculture for most of my life, so I have some thoughts on the topic. The part where Baskerville ponders whether a gentleman gambles got me to thinking. It is essential to being an effective citizen and a leader.” “Being a gentleman means accepting responsibility, first, for oneself, and then as well for one’s family, community, and country. Being a gentleman entails more than being a refined member of accepted society, Baskerville writes.
Chronicles writer Stephen Baskerville does just this in his excellent book, A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World.
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Yet in this war, there are still a few voices who speak about how to be a gentleman in a hostile world.
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